Background
I originally wrote this several weeks ago when installing Ubuntu’s Edgy Eft on a defunct Windows laptop we had, but never got around to editing it properly.  The laptop went belly-up again and just tonight I installed Edubuntu on the same machine and refined my documentation after going through the steps to get WPA2 WiFi […]

Anne Zelenka, the “Red Nun” of Redmonk provides a 6-item list of myths about Ajax.  Mostly I think she’s right on the mark, especially the note about Ajax making sites more usable.  But I think she’s a little off track in this bit:
Myth 3: Ajax is just window dressing - it’s only about superficial cool […]

In Choices = Headaches Joel Spolsky discusses the multitude of options a computer user must sort through to turn of their computer:
“The more choices you give people, the harder it is for them to choose, and the unhappier they’ll feel.”
and

“Inevitably, you are going to think of a long list of intelligent, defensible reasons why […]

Recording Your Attention: Spying on Yourself — J Wynia
J’s put up an attention service for himself, much as I’ve done. He has, however, taken the time to give a basic run-down of the very simple procedure for getting one running.
I only have 1 thing to add to J’s list of 14 steps to recording […]

SuprGlu is a sort of a personality aggregator for the web published by Iridesco. If you wanted to collect all the information available by you or about you that you’re responsible for, SuprGlu’d be a place to do it.
The essential idea here is that you give SuprGlu a bunch of inputs of your data […]

I suspect most will have heard about Pandora; the company was reviewed by TechCrunch, and the free release was publicized there as well. I first heard about the idea on an NPR segment about Pandora’s parent, the Music Genome Project.
I don’t know what I can add to Michael’s original review at TechCrunch, but I […]

Is anyone out there running a custom attention-recording service, a la the Attention Toolkit?
I’m having some troubles with the new version of the AttentionRecorder extension and custom services. Essentially it’s worked intermittently in Firefox 1.5, but then inexplicably seems to stop recording. It seem to be related to adding a custom service, but […]

I’ve been looking more closely at the SSE announcement since it came out; the next few posts are likely to be about this, and some (like this one) fairly (ok, very) long, so be forewarned….
After reading through the spec and accompanying FAQ, I started rifling through the commentary thread at memeorandum.1  Alex Barnett already has […]

Dave’s made it to the web with his OPML Validator Beta. On the surface it seems a little more strict than Randy’s validator.
Dave’s linked to the caveats of the beta-ness of the tool, as well, which is pretty nice - especially the presence of the valid and invalid test files. As I linked […]

The folks over at Rojo have fixed a bug with the share page that was making the tag field disappear from the page. Now they’re back!

Since I use Rojolicious as my main in-road to posting entries to de.icio.us, missing this field was kind of a big deal to me. Thanks, Rojo!
In concert with […]